Notes in Anguish

–The U.S went into Afghanistan after 911 for the following objectives. –Using the India card in Afghanistan was decided by the U.S very early, when it put Karzai, a confirmed CIA agent and pro-India hawk, at the helm there. –If there was any doubt about where the U.S stood on this issue, it was removed… →

After reading the subject judgement, I felt that indeed it was a judgement that may be remembered for a long time to come. But it will be so remembered in parts but for very different reasons. The judgements of two judges will perhaps be remembered for stripping the PM and his family naked by tearing… →

From 2008 onwards, the central aim being pursued by the governments in power stood naked and exposed, without a shred of modesty nor any sense of shame. This central aim was to loot Pakistan. There is therefore a direct correlation between the exponential rise in Pakistan’s national debt and the assets of its “leaders”. Our… →

When a judge is asked to take “Judicial Notice” of some fact, the plea being resorted to is that they should accept as correct, a fact which is so well known, that no proof of it should be considered necessary. In the lines that follow, it will be my assumption that the readers will take… →

Elected representatives of the people govern the state and serve the people; and the armed forces serve the state and give it protection from external threat. Or so we are told. In Pakistan, the social contract between the people and the state stands significantly altered. The elected representatives of the people have abandoned the burden… →

For years now, “democracy” has been run in Pakistan like a closed shop. The political leadership of the country, both those in government and those who form the “friendly” opposition, aided and abetted by choice bureaucrats, have taken their turns at the till. The country has been subjected to unabated plunder to the point of… →

I am having a bad feeling about the country that we love. I am having the same intuition which I had during the East Pakistan crisis. Even the recalling of it is proving extremely painful. For some reason that famous quote of Sir Walter Scott keeps coming back to me regarding the prime human virtue,… →

Normally this ought not to be a very difficult question to answer. But in the face of galloping national catastrophe, when loyalty to his oath becomes disloyalty to the state, it becomes for some soldiers, a difficult question to answer despite the fact that as a last resort, they must unequivocally stand with the state.… →

There is a considerable body of opinion in the country, growing stronger all the time, that the Torkham attack by the Afghans on our post was instigated, among others by the Indians. The Indians, it is believed have a vested interest in Nawaz Sharif holding on to power. After all we have all heard an… →

I am not a lawyer, and thus do not know if a confessional statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code can be resiled from or not. However I was in NAB at the time Ishaq Dar was interrogated, and I know that his confessional statement was entirely voluntary. Col Obaidullah of NAB, probably… →

So, who needs a commission to investigate our PM’s shenanigans exposed by the Panama Leaks? What needs to be done is the following: ALL this information can be got hold of within one week. The price paid to purchase the subject properties plus the money paid for the repayment of the loan mentioned above will… →

That the CPEC is very important for China, goes without saying. That it is vital for Pakistan, would be an understatement. This corridor will help China to whittle down, to a considerable extent, the effects of the containment being implemented against it by the U.S. For Pakistan it will mean a vital economic fillip which,… →